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New class of rotating charged black holes with nonaligned electromagnetic field

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2025-11-05 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We present a large family of twisting and expanding solutions to the Einstein-Maxwell equations of algebraic type D, for which the two double principal null directions (PNDs) of the Weyl tensor are not aligned with the null eigendirections of the Faraday tensor. In addition to systematically deriving this new class, we present its various metric forms and convenient parameterizations. We show that in Boyer-Lindquist-type coordinates these solutions depend on 7 parameters, namely the Kerr and NUT (Newman-Unti-Tamburino) twist parameters aa and ll, mass parameter mm, acceleration α\alpha, strength of the Maxwell field c|c|, and angular parameters β,γ\beta, \gamma that represent two duality rotations of the Faraday tensor, which include the rotation between the electric and magnetic charges generating the aligned part of the Maxwell field. This coordinate parameterization, analogous to the Griffiths-Podolsk\'y form of the Pleba\'nski-Demia\'nski solutions, allows us to perform various limits, explicitly identify the subcases, and determine the physical interpretation of the new class. Interestingly, by considering the limit with no acceleration (α0\alpha\to 0), one obtains either the famous Kerr-Newman-NUT black holes (if the parameter c|c| remains constant) or the novel Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson black holes, announced recently in our work [Kerr Black Hole in a Uniform Bertotti-Robinson Magnetic Field: An Exact Solution, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 135} (2025) 18, 181401] (if c|c|\rightarrow \infty while αc=const.\alpha |c|=\mathrm{const.}). We may thus conclude that this new class of spacetimes represents twisting charged accelerating black holes, immersed in an external magnetic (or electric) field. In the non-twisting subcase, we obtain the previously known solution of Van den Bergh-Carminati.

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@article{arxiv.2508.04850,
  title  = {New class of rotating charged black holes with nonaligned electromagnetic field},
  author = {Hryhorii Ovcharenko and Jiří Podolský},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.04850},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

57 pages, 5 figures; Supplementary Wolfram Mathematica file with derivations added to the source archive (changes concerning static subcase made, Ref. [52] added in version 2; title changed in accordance with the published title in version 3)